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“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”— Kipling
This famous statement was proved false when Vivekananda, with the flood of Sri Ramakrishna’s inspiration, gloriously united the East and the West with his unique message on religion.
Tagore, too, utterly denied this statement. His fruitful life was a mission of interpreting the East to the West; he wanted nothing more, nothing less than a flood of peace between the two hemispheres.22
RTM 108,3. Sri Chinmoy, Philosopher-Thinkers: The Power-Towers of the Mind, and Poet- Seers: The Fragrance-Hours of the Heart, New York: Agni Press, 1998, p. 113.↩
Sri Chinmoy, Rabindranath Tagore: the moon of Bengal’s Heart, Agni Press, 2011
